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FFitness
Brain Health Challenge: Workouts to Strengthen Your Brain
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Brain Health Challenge: Workouts to Strengthen Your Brain

  • January 7, 2026
The 5-Day Brain Health Challenge A sharper, more resilient mind starts here. Friday Make 5 Appointments Today, you’re…
HHeadlines
Rolling Meadows Ferris wheel fall in Christchurch: Man suffers brain bleed after 15m drop
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Rolling Meadows Ferris wheel fall in Christchurch: Man suffers brain bleed after 15m drop

  • January 7, 2026
Event Hire operates the wheel and its director Phil Anderson said all riders were assessed before boarding to…
SScience
Study links poor sleep to adverse health outcomes in seniors
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Ancient animals reveal sleep’s original role in maintaining brain health

  • January 7, 2026
A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep’s core functions originated hundreds of millions…
SScience
Ishaan Chandok (from left), Jeff Lichtman, Yaron Meirovitch, and Aravi Samuel.
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Want to speed brain research? It’s all in how you look at it. — Harvard Gazette

  • January 6, 2026
To get a better look at brains, Harvard researchers are making microscopes work more like human eyes. Until…
SScience
Brain circuit identified as key to repetitive and compulsive behaviors in mice
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Gut microbes shown to directly shape brain function and evolution

  • January 6, 2026
A groundbreaking new study reveals that changes to the gut microbiome can change the way the brain works.…
NNutrition
Brain Health Challenge: Try the MIND Diet
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Brain Health Challenge: Try the MIND Diet

  • January 6, 2026
Welcome to Day 2 of the Brain Health Challenge. Today, we’re talking about food. Your brain is an…
TTechnology
Machine learning unlocks blood test secrets for spinal cord injury
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AI method sharply improves noise removal in brain imaging

  • January 6, 2026
Obtaining clearer functional MRI data about the brain and its disorders is possible using artificial intelligence, according to…
SScience
DeCasien et al. provide the first empirical data showing the direct role the gut microbiome plays in shaping differences in the way the brain functions across different primate species. Image credit: DeCasien et al., doi: 10.1073/pnas.2426232122.
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Gut Microbes Played Role in Evolution of Human Brain, New Study Suggests

  • January 5, 2026
Compared to other primates, humans have remarkably large brains relative to their body sizes. The resultant high demands…
NNew Zealand
Decriminalise, depoliticise, destigmatise: New report says drug laws are ‘colossal failure’ that exacerbate harm
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Majority of NZ drug and alcohol users experience no negative effects, study shows

  • January 5, 2026
The headline finding doesn’t mean drugs are harmless or that there are no risks associated with taking them.…
HHealth
Black adolescents in Canada face barriers to mental health care access
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Self-sabotage may reflect the brain’s need for control and safety

  • January 5, 2026
Self-harming and self-sabotaging behaviors, from skin picking to ghosting people, all stem from evolutionary survival mechanisms, according to…
HHealth
Brain Health Challenge: Test Your Knowledge of Healthy Habits
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Brain Health Challenge: Test Your Knowledge of Healthy Habits

  • January 5, 2026
Welcome to the Brain Health Challenge! I’m Dana Smith, a reporter at The New York Times, and I’ll…
EEntertainment
Billy Joel makes surprise performance after health diagnosis
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Billy Joel makes surprise performance after health diagnosis

  • January 4, 2026
Last May, the singer announced via Instagram that he had been diagnosed with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH), a…
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